Hi,<\/p>\n
This is going to be my first entry; here is where I declare in advance what libs and stuff im going to be using. Anything which I have written myself I will submit as a .zip file, alongside the bare-bones VS project I will be starting out with. (just a .sln with a single .proj which has the linker and build settings already done, but no code in it yet)<\/p>\n
Graphics: OpenGL along with my very crude but functional 3d maths lib, and my wrapper class for loading a shader.
\n Image Loading: SOIL plus my Texture class which is a thin wrapper around it.
\n Sound: FMOD along with my simple wrapper code. (3 classes). I’ll use Sfxr for the sound; no music unless I have lots of time left, in which case I’ll use Musagi
\n Input \/ Window Creation: SDL. No need for wrapper libs here, I’ll make them on the fly.
\n Font Rendering: SDL_ttf plus my own “brute force” wrapper lib which basically just shoves text on the screen and takes around 1ms to do it…<\/p>\n
For the graphics I’m targeting OpenGL 2.1 level hardware, which means I’ll be using fragment and vertex shaders, although probably nothing fancy this time around.<\/p>\n
For sound, I have created a basic sound lib which wraps up FMOD’s context creation code, allowing me to create contexts and play sounds with only a few LOC.<\/p>\n
One thing I am going to do, and I did ask if this was acceptable in the channel on afternet, is to create myself a VS project with all the third party stuff already setup in the linker \/ include settings. I wont add my own code to this until I have started, but I will include that code in the zip.<\/p>\n
I wont be using any source control for this; it seems pointless for a 48 hour coding binge, I’ll just periodically backup the entire folder the project is in.<\/p>\n
All my graphics will be drawn in paintbrush, because I’m so hardcore. Also I have no art skills and so the stylistic “paintbrush art” style is excusable.<\/p>","time":"August 20th, 2010 7:10 am","title":"My first entry"}